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|release = December 2011(Japan)<br> February 2012 (North America)

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{{for|other emulators that run on PS Vita hardware|Emulators on Vita}}  The '''PlayStation Vita''' is an eighth-generation handheld game console by SonyInteractive Entertainment, released in Japan on December 17, 2011, and in North America on February 15, 2012. It had a Quadquad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore at 333MHz 333 MHz (Boosted to 494MHz 494 MHz when Wi-Fi is deactivated) with 512MB 512 MB of RAM and 128MB , 128 MB of VRAM. It had , and a Quadquad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU, which can push 133 million polygons onto the screen every second at a clock speed of 200MHz200 MHz.

|[https://github.com/Vita3K/Vita3K /releases git]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-! colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM|-|[[Vita3K]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://github.com/Vita3K/Vita3K-Android/releases git] |{{✓}}

|[https://github.com/xerpi/vita2hos/releases/tag/alpha-0.2 3 Alpha 0.23]

:Can already run homebrew While it isn't nearly as compatible as [[RPCS3]] is for PlayStation 3, it still has made immense progress compared to the earlier days, when development was slow and seemed like it wasn't really going anywhere. 484 (39%) out of 1232 tested titles that can be played from start to finish with playable performance and some commercial gamesno game breaking glitches. The This is the best and only Vita emulator uses Vita dumps in the <code>.vpk</code> file formatfor PC and Android.

:An open-source [[Compatibility layers|early compatibility layer]] that redirects the module imports of Vita executables to jump to routines for Nintendo Switch that implement the same behavior, by using native Horizon OS services, like the one exposed by the original runs PlayStation Vita OS modulesapplications natively.<br> Only able to load simple test homebrews such as vita-8as of December 2022.

The RPCS3 developers once considered adding Vita emulation support, going as far as displaying a simple 'Hello world' and a basic atomic test sample.<ref name="emunewz">{{cite web|url=http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=164933|title=PS Vita emulation progress|publisher=emunewz|accessdate=2018-04-04|date=2014-11-02}}</ref> However, Vita development was completely halted since then and focused exclusively on [[PlayStation 3 emulators|PS3]] emulation down to the website's branding. A Patreon post admitting as much asked users whether they are still interested at all in Vita emulation. Significant further developments on Vita coming from RPCS3 aren't very likely considering the general lack of developer interest, and those who are (like frangarcj) , who went on to join Vita3K. The RPCS3 project has since removed Vita support from the codebase.<ref name="GitHub">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/4160|title=Remove Vita emulation (Nekotekina)|publisher=GitHub|accessdate=2018-04-04|date=2018-02-09}}</ref> ==See Also==*[[Emulators on Vita]]

*[https://vitadevwikiplaystationdev.comwiki/vitapsvitadevwiki/index.php/Main_Page PS Vita Dev Wiki]